dbphd
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| Need help with splitting XLR OUTPUT I use Jensen transformers to go from balanced to unbalanced lines. I sent an email a couple of weeks ago to Jensen asking about transformers to go from unbalanced to balanced lines. There's been no response from Jensen.db | |
| What's the sonic advantage of bi-wiring I suppose it depends on how narrowly you define high-end. But what's the point? I think your recency notion is incorrect, but what difference does it make to the question of whether biwiring is efficacious.db | |
| Proceed hpa3 + hpa2 or simaudio titan? Internetmin writes, "The local shops that I looked at--even the former Proceed dealers--don't have the local know-how to repair them any longer." That differs from my experience in Santa Barbara. My Amp 3 was repaired locally, and the shop comment... | |
| What's the sonic advantage of bi-wiring I assume Csontos means recent few decades when he says recent practice. I was introduced to the idea of biwiring more than 40 years ago by a high-end shop in Palo Alto, CA when I bought my first Proceed amp and KEF speakers.db | |
| Proceed hpa3 + hpa2 or simaudio titan? My experience with Proceed amps is that they're pretty bullet proof. I've used several Amp 2s for decades. Given that the HPA 3 weighs about 100 pounds, it seems more reasonable to explore a local shop that deals with high-end stuff to do any repa... | |
| Proceed hpa3 + hpa2 or simaudio titan? I've never heard a Simaudio Titan, but I have Proceed HPA 2 & 3 amps that I use daily. They are superb.db | |
| Voice regognition remote? Bobbob, I think the guy was blowing smoke. It shouldn't happen. A code word, e.g. SIRI, might be used to alert the system, but that's all.db | |
| Voice regognition remote? You shouldn't have to press a button to activate speech recognition. It should have pretty robust recognition of a code word. Versions of the technology are used for word spotting in which the system "listens" for specific words or phrases, often ... | |
| Has the Oppo carried the AV industry? Edorr hit a home run with his post. It's precise and to the point.db | |
| Has the Oppo carried the AV industry? avgoround writes, "picture quality alone (which, btw, should be the only real thing that matters for a Bluray player)"I suspect he hasn't heard music Blu-rays with DTS MA HD or Dolby True HD; in fact, I suspect his experience with the video or aud... | |
| Using Oppo 105 for Audio from Cable Box? Jfz, the Cary 11a for all its bugs has a reputation for fine audio quality, a reputation deserved in my experience. Thus, although I don't use it, I'm confident HDMI-2 taken to the Cary would produce excellent audio. Analog from the 105 to Cary in... | |
| Using Oppo 105 for Audio from Cable Box? I take HDMI from a DirecTV HD-DVR to the HDMI port of the Oppo 105, HDMI-1 out of the 105 directly to the projector and HDMI-2 to a monitor for video, analog XLR stereo and RCA 7.1 to a Cary 11a processor for audio. The result is excellent audio a... | |
| Which would be a better surround processor. "I found the analogue far better in my Emotiva UMC-200 than the Oppo 105. Increased dynamics, more neutral highs, and a layed back sound - meaning not forward sounding." Bacardi sure is pushing this hard. I must have read this on a half dozen post... | |
| Has anyone bought the OPPO 105 and has an opinion I have both an Oppo BDP-105 and Sony XA5400ES in my setup, both with analog out to a Cary 11a processor set to bypass. I got flamed for saying this in a AVS thread, but I prefer the sound of the Oppo 105. High-quality (200 gram) vinyl sounds remar... | |
| Good Processor I assume all the room correction technologies require a digital signal, whether presented to the processor as digital or digitized by the processor. Is that correct? It causes me wonder if the Velodyne SMS-1 digitizes the signal from the sub outpu... |